Kharagpur SectionDr. Prabodh BajpaiSection Chair 2013

IEEE Kharagpur Section

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur

Uniqueness The section is rooted at the IIT Kharagpur

Initially it was emerged as a small chapter with only 60 members under IEEE Kolkata Section in 1983.

In 13th May, 1985 it renunciated as the IEEE Kharagpur Section

Members comprise of faculty, staff and students from IIT Kharagpur and HIT Haldia.

Uniqueness Organizes an industrial trip every year to

enhance industry-academic relations.

Organize regular seminars by visiting experts , technically cosponsor International and National conferences held in the region

Financial (partial) travel support to student members for paper presentation in International conferences

Uniqueness

The IEEE Kharagpur Section organizes workshops, conferences, symposium, colloquium, lectures by renowned personalities frequently.

For the more than past 25 years, the IEEE Kharagpur Section has helped its members advances their careers and the field of computing and the development of mankind.

Member Counts by Grade Section with 11 Executive Committee Members

and total 357 members comprise of Associate Member 1Life Fellow 1Life Senior 3Member 91Senior Member 27Graduate Student Member 113Student Member 121

Structure

Section Executive committee Control System Society Chapter Two student branches

IIT KharagpurHIT Haldia

Affinity groupWomen in Engineering

EMB Student Club

Major Events Technically co-sponsored IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on

Point-of-Care Health Technologies during 16-18 January 2013 held at Bangalore

Technically co-sponsored IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS) during 17 Dec - 20 Dec 2013 held at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Technically co-sponsored International Conference on VLSI and Signal Processing (ICVSP) during 10-12 January 2014 held at Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India

Technically sponsored 2nd International Conference on Business and Information Management (ICBIM) during 09 Jan - 11 Jan 2014 held at City Residency Gandhi More, Durgapur, India

Major Student and Affinity Group Activities

"IEEE Workshop on MEMS & Microsystems With Hands-on training in Device Simulation and Microfabrication Process“ during 4 – 6 July, 2013.

Seminar on "Open Source Technologies“ on October 8, 2013.

Workshop on "LaTeX (Document Type setting for Paper / Thesis Writing)“ on October 8, 2013.

Jointly organized three Invited IEEE PEER Talks

IEEE Student Branch with IEEE EMB Student Club, Machine Learning reading group and WiE Affinity has organized two Invited Talks

Jointly organized Medical camp on March 30, 2013

Celebrated IEEE Day on October 8, 2013

Sl. No.

Name of the Events Date Number of Participants

Resource Persons

1 Robotryst (Workshop on Robotics)

24 April, 2013

65 Robosaipens Technologies Pvt

Ltd

2 IEEE HIT SB- Fresher’s Welcome & Farewell Program

15 JULY, 2013

100 IEEE HIT SB & EE dept., HIT

4 MATLAB Workshop 27-28 JULY, 2013

110 Faculties of EE dept, HIT

5 PSPICEWorkshop

3-4 AUG,2013

87 Faculties of EE dept, HIT

6 Aeromodelling Workshop (Aerotrix)

24-25 Aug, 2013

30 Aerotrix Group

7 Robotics Workshop (Introbots)

21-22 Sept. 2013

56 Introbots, IIT Kharagpur group

8 GATE Preparation test series

weekend 102 GATE Academy

Control System Society Chapter

Sl Activity Speaker Name Topic Date

1 Seminar Dr. Atanendu Sekhar Mandal

Designing an ASIP for Hindi Text to Speech Synthesis

5th December, 2013

2 Seminar Dr. Goutam Chattopadhyay

Terahertz Technology: What Can We Do with It?

19th December, 2013

3 Seminar Mr. Supratim Ghosh

Teams and Games for Distributed Consensus

26 th July, 2013

4 Seminar Mr. Mayank Raj Energy Adaptive Computing for Constrained Networks

Nov. 18, 2013

5 Seminar Mr. Sumit Kumar Chattopadhyay

Multilevel Inverters with Level Doubling Network: A New Topological Variation

30th December 2013

Membership Development Activities

To improve the value of membership, that leads to retention and growth of membersRegular reminder to defaulters by email alerts

for renewalOrganizing motivational talk about IEEE

benefits

Goals and Future Plans

Increase in active membership count

Retaining the vibrant nature of the section by organizing the activities for advancement of humanity

Membership up gradation program

Encourage student membership by technical and financial support to their activities